Re: Okympia: New Subskills

From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1992 18:13:24 +0000

Note that eliminating parent skills doesn't necessarily eliminate a
hierarchy of skills.  You just hide that behind the scenes.  My
suggestion (to Rich) was a tree of skills connected by weighted
prerequisite links, such as:

/ --- .80 --- Fight w Javelin
 			  +--- Fight w Sword
 			  |		    \--.20--\
			  |                          \
 	General ---.50 ---+--- Ride Horses -- .50 ----+-- Mounted Combat
 			  |
 			  +--- Public Oratory --- .75 --- Acting

Every unit would start out with the "General" skill (although this
wouldn't appear on their turn report) and would be informed about
any skill in which they had a rating of .50 or greater.  In this
case, that would be Fight w Sword, Ride Horses, and Public Oratory.
The rate at which they could learn a skill would depend on how much
they inherited through the prerequisite links from other skills, so
that if (for instance) you had Fight w Sword 1 and Ride Horses 2, then
you would learn Mounted Combat at a rate porportional to:

1*.20 + 2 *.50 = 1.20

If you had less than .50 in a skill, you wouldn't be able to learn it
at all, preventing units from "jumping over" basic skills to get to
expert skills.

As far as being overwhelmed with possibilities, well, it's like the
kid in a toy store.  It's an enjoyable problem.  Of course, if you
adopt the above scheme, initially you'd only see a small number of the
total available skills.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 11:34:12 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 17:03:57 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
jrives@tridom.uucp (Joel Rives)
Fri, 10 Jul 1992 15:33:36 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 11:34:12 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 17:03:57 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
jrives@tridom.uucp (Joel Rives)
Fri, 10 Jul 1992 15:33:36 +0000